it will be a first down or it will be fourth and inches. phil: you think they will go for it? got it by the nose. for those expect to see 60 minutes, you are watching the nfl on cbs. colts and the patriots coming down to the wire. new england leads it 31-28. 60 minutes to follow. after the game, expect on the except on the west coast. you will see it at its regularly scheduled time. another completion. ball came out at the end but they rule him down on the field. that is garcon with the catch.

again, the drive starter. wide receivers coming underneath. jim: procedure penalty will back up the colts five. phil: jim, you look at this, new england still has three time-outs. >> false start, offense. number 71. five-yard penalty. second down. you think about that, of course you know you have him and you are going to use him if you think you need it to give yourself a chance to win the game. so far it is not an appropriate time to call a time-out if you are the patriots. jim: second and 6 to wayne. he leaps but fails to hold on.

phil: reggie wayne -- ok. here is what is going to happen. >> first charged time-out, indianapolis. a 30-second time-out. phil: reggie wayne was attended to on the field. so either he has to come out of the game for one play or indianapolis calls a time-out. now he can go back into the

game. jim: that is a good time-out. phil: it is. once the trainers came out and started to attend to him, then inside of two minutes or any part of the game -- ball comes out. jim: he landed on the football. that is why for a moment it looked like he had the wind knocked out. phil: yes. jim: peyton recognizing that calls a time-out. manning, four times the league m.v.p. shared in one of those four years and many around the league has been his finest performance, playing with this patchwork squad, different receivers and skill players every week. top receiver, dallas clark. top tight end. seeing him at his best here in this quarter. this would be some comeback,

wouldn't it? third and 6. that is why you call a time-out. wayne with the catch and the first down. phil: i haven't seen them run this play in quite a while. they used to run it against the patriots years ago five or six times during the game. what a time to call it. jim: on first down sanders with the interception! very little pressure on the quarterback all game long. but this pass was influenced by the heat. phil: i couldn't tell if peyton manning was trying to throw it to the outside receiver or to the inside receiver. the pressure comes off of the

edge. he steps up and changes the angle of the football. that change in the angle makes it go off target. jim: it is cunningham, the rookie drafted in the second round out of florida. phil: i think he was throwing it to try to throw it behind pierre garcon and he would try to make him stop and come back. jim: two time-outs for the colts but it will not add up. they were in field goal range. at the very least it would be a vinatieri moment to tie it if they were not able to take it across the goal line. phil: very little pressure all day long on peyton manning. but a couple of times that pressure resulted in two interceptions. and i think what happened there -- i know what happened. his arm angle had to change so

much that it just made him inaccurate. that is what happens. pressure on the quarterback, no matter what it is. if you hinder his vision a little bit or if he has to change the way that he throws it of course the ball won't go the way he wanted it to. jim: brady pretty excited here. and the colts are not going to take that last time-out. jim: new england now to 8-2. indianapolis falls to 6-4 and tom brady has now won for the 25th consecutive regular season game at home as he ties brett favre's all-time record.

well, manning almost pulled off another memorable comeback against the patriots. he had that one last year. had that epic comeback in the a.f.c. title game. the super bowl winning year. but it was his third pick of the game matched against his four touchdown passes. trying to shrug off of the pressure of cunningham, influencing the throw. sanders who had a pick and run back makes the game-saver this time. peyton knew that they were in rhythm, poised to steal one here at gillette. phil: i think these two teams might see each other one more time this year. jim: i would love to see it. and i will see you, my friend, on thanksgiving day. phil: look forward to it. jim: for phil sims and all of the crew, this is jim nantz saying so long from foxboro.

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than it wanted this man. his name is viktor bout and he's known as the "merchant of death." u.s. government officials say bout became the world's most notorious arms dealer by fueling civil wars around the world. courted by drug lords and dictators, the u.s. saw him as a threat because of his ability to arm terrorists targeting the united states. a former russian military officer, bout has been protected by powerful friends and long considered untouchable by law enforcement. but three years ago, the d.e.a. devised a bold undercover operation to capture him. this past week, they brought him to new york to face terrorism charges. tonight, those at the heart of operation relentless-- a sting that spanned three continents-- tell the story behind it for the first time. >> michael braun: viktor bout, in my eyes, is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth. >> keteyian: on the face of the earth. >> braun: without a doubt. >> keteyian: mike braun, the former chief of operations for the u.s. drug enforcement administration, told us bout

first exploded on the scene in war-torn west africa in the late 1980s, elevating bloody conflicts from machetes and single-shot rifles to... >> braun: ak-47s-- not by the thousands, but by the tens of thousands. >> keteyian: so he weaponizes civil war in africa. >> braun: he transformed these young adolescent warriors into insidious, mindless, maniacally driven killing machines that operated with assembly line efficiencies. >> keteyian: now 43, bout, from the soviet republic of tajikistan, is a mystery man who reportedly served in the soviet air force and intelligence service. the u.s. has indicted him on four terror-related charges, including conspiracy to kill americans. what makes him a threat to the united states? >> braun: he is a shadow facilitator. he's arming not only designated terrorist groups, insurgent groups, but he's also arming very powerful drug trafficking cartels around the globe.

>> keteyian: taking advantage of russian military contacts at the highest levels, and the collapse of the soviet union, federal prosecutors allege bout essentially became a one-stop shop, offering an unlimited supply of stockpiled cold war weapons to "bad guys" around the world, including charles taylor of liberia, who's now on trial for war crimes. according to the u.s. indictment, bout had a unique selling point when it came to weapons trafficking-- a fleet of cargo airplanes capable of transporting weapons and military equipment anytime, anywhere. more than 60 planes in all-- his own private air force. >> braun: those russian aircraft were built like flying dump trucks. he could move this stuff and drop it with pinpoint accuracy to any desert, to any jungle, to any other remote place in the world, right into the hands of what i refer to as "the potpourri of global scum." >> keteyian: by the late 1990s,

bout was a legend in the shadowy world of illicit arms dealing, so elusive that the only two pictures that surfaced of him back then were taken, without bout's knowledge, by a belgian photographer. later, bout became the inspiration behind the nicolas cage character in the movie "lord of war." >> nicolas cage: i was an equal opportunity merchant of death. i supplied every army but the salvation army. >> keteyian: u.s. treasury documents reveal a bout empire so sophisticated, so complex-- hidden behind a thick curtain of front companies-- that even the u.s. government unwittingly contracted with two of his companies to deliver supplies to u.s. troops in iraq. juan zarate, deputy national security advisor in the second bush white house, and a cbs news consultant, told us hiring bout was a mistake. >> juan zarate: this was one of the grave complications for the united states. victor bout's tentacles reached so far and so deep that he had access to planes that could

provide services for the u.s. government. >> keteyian: zarate admitted the u.s. could do business with bout, but it couldn't catch him. >> zarate: i had always thought of viktor bout as untouchable. and i also, frankly, didn't think that anyone could get to him. >> keteyian: a challenge zarate, from the white house, threw out at a meeting with mike braun and his d.e.a. team. the d.e.a. had just pulled off a string of extraordinarily successful captures of high- value terrorism targets around the world, like afghan drug lords. >> braun: d.e.a. agents live for the hunt. >> keteyian: but, mike, no one had even gotten a sniff on this guy. >> braun: let me tell your something, armen-- when i'm sitting there next to juan, and my guys are sitting across the table from him-- the very best that our government's got to offer-- and he tosses this out on the table, and i look him in the eyes, and they're looking back at me, like, "we'll do this. we can do this." >> zarate: but it was about a 5%

chance in the back of my mind. and so, you know, i wished them well and i went back to the white house. >> braun: mike braun's thinking 95%, okay. 5% and 95% make 100%. he was going down, he was in our crosshairs. >> keteyian: the d.e.a. supervisor put in charge of the hunt for viktor bout was louis milione. >> louis milione: we felt that we could create a scenario that would pull him in. >> keteyian: the plan was to pull bout out of moscow with a huge arms deal he couldn't refuse. to do that, the d.e.a. hired an undercover agent to contact a trusted associate of bout's named andrew smulian. the d.e.a. operative said he had a big business deal for bout. i'm thinking in terms of fishing here. it's almost like you've thrown the line in the water. there's a little bit of bait-- this is a business proposition. and you're waiting to see if anything comes back with a nibble. >> milione: we were really waiting to see-- yeah, exactly-- what smulian says and what he says about bout. >> keteyian: and as it comes

back-- "spoke to boris, anything possible with farming equipment." >> milione: that's correct. >> keteyian: "boris" was code for bout, "farming equipment" for weapons. that exchange led to the island of curacao, a few hundred miles off the coast of colombia. it was here that bout's buddy, andrew smulian, would first meet the two d.e.a. undercover operatives posing as officials in the colombian terrorist group known as the farc. the two fake rebels, "eduardo" and "el comandante," would say they want to buy millions of dollars worth of weapons to fight the colombian army and the u.s. military pilots protecting them. smulian has to believe that eduardo and el comandante are real. >> milione: right, if smulian doesn't believe it, we're done and... and we go home. >> keteyian: the meeting is about to take place. what's your temperature like? >> milione: your heart rate goes... is up a little bit and you... your adrenaline's going a little bit. you have butterflies. >> keteyian: emotions that only escalated when, at this hotel in

curacao, the fake rebels tell smulian, bout's buddy, they want to spend $12 million on everything from sniper rifles to surface-to-air missiles. >> milione: he bites off on it. in fact, he eats the whole thing, whole. so it was... it was very successful. >> keteyian: so successful, smulian immediately flew to moscow to present the deal to "boris," the man the d.e.a. believes is bout. two weeks later, in another meeting, this time in copenhagen, smulian told the d.e.a. operatives that his russian business partner really liked the deal, and then he revealed who that man in moscow really is. >> milione: "you know who this man is that we're getting the weapons from? this is bout, b-o-u-t. he's wanted by the world. they call him the 'merchant of death'." >> keteyian: b-o-u-t. >> milione: yeah. he spelled it out for him. we marveled that smulian would do that. but it was just great evidence. >> keteyian: the d.e.a. was in the game. but bout was still safe and secure in russia and reluctant to leave. the d.e.a. undercovers insisted they couldn't go to moscow, but had to meet bout to seal the deal.

>> milione: and bout's going to know that that's how these deals are going to work. comandante is not going to release these millions of dollars for these weapons to anybody until he at least shakes hands, talks, looks bout in the eye, and then we can move on. that's how we countered. and... and bout went for it. >> keteyian: next stop, romania, just three days later. the play was to entice bout to bucharest, claiming that's where the money was stashed to pay for the weapons. bout said he'd come, but then he had trouble getting a visa. the case stalled. after ten days of waiting for bout, the top d.e.a. agent made a gutsy call to walk away. so, you've been chasing this guy hard for two months. you almost got him. and you've got to make the decision to step away from the table. >> milione: if we were real, we wouldn't stay there forever. we're going to now step away and say, "look, we need to take care of some other things. but it's time for us to leave." >> keteyian: over the next two weeks, milione came up with a new plan to reel bout in.

the phony rebels told bout they would be in bangkok soon. asked if he could get there, bout agreed. the morning bout arrived in bangkok, the d.e.a. and thai police had gathered downtown, waiting for word from cops at the airport that the merchant of death had landed. >> milione: they call us in the room and they tell us that he's here. i mean... >> keteyian: what was the moment like there? >> milione: it was just unbelievable. because we knew, at that point, you know, you're kind of like holding on as you climb up the mountain at different points in the investigation. this was one where, at that point, i believed and the other investigators believed, not only are we in the game, he shows up at this meeting, we've got him. he's going to be arrested. >> keteyian: bout drove to this hotel and met the two fake arms buyers in a conference room on the 27th floor. here, the d.e.a.'s undercover team told bout they want his weapons to kill americans. >> milione: the comandante and eduardo make it very clear. they said, "we're fighting against the untied states." bout responds and says, "look,

they're after me, too," he said, "but we are together in this. they are my enemy, also." eduardo and comandante talk about how they want sniper sights for the rifles that they have so that they could "start blowing the heads off american pilots." bout's response immediately is "yes." >> keteyian: then, the d.e.a. said, bout jotted down on these pages what he intended to deliver for $12 million, including between 700 and 800 surface-to-air missiles. >> milione: 5,000 ak-47s, anti- personnel mines, fragmentation grenades, armor piercing rockets. money laundering services. and all within the context of speaking about a shared ideology of communism and fighting against the americans. >> keteyian: after two hours, one of the d.e.a. undercovers made a call, a signal it was time to move in. within minutes, the thai police and d.e.a. agents burst into the room. >> milione: we see bout across the far end of, like, a

boardroom-type table, standing up with his hands inside his briefcase. and they give him the command to put his hands up. and he hesitates. and they immediately focused in with their weapons and gave him the command again. >> keteyian: are you thinking, "we've come all this way to see viktor bout shot by a thai policeman?" >> milione: the thought did cross my mind that something really bad is going to happen to him right here. but then, he complied. >> keteyian: it turned out there was no weapon in the briefcase. the disarming of viktor bout was now officially complete. >> milione: the thais cuff him. he's taken into custody. smulian's taken into custody. >> keteyian: does bout say anything? >> milione: "the game is over" or something like that. >> keteyian: "the game is over." >> milione: right. >> keteyian: but then, a new game began. bout became the center of a legal tug of war between the u.s. and russia, which wanted him released back to moscow. bout said he only went to thailand as a simple tourist, not an arms dealer. bout and the russians managed to delay his extradition to america for more than two and a half years. but last tuesday, after a sting

that played out on three continents, the d.e.a. finally got their man. they flew him to new york, where he pled not guilty to charges, including conspiracy to kill americans. when bout rode under tight security in a convoy to jail in manhattan, riding right along with him was louis milione. this is the "lord of war," the "merchant of death." >> milione: right. >> keteyian: and you've got him in your hands. >> milione: right. he's in custody. it's a great feeling. it's an absolutely great feeling. >> cbs moneywatch update:. >> mitchell: good evening, the "the wall street journal" reports federal authorities are preparing insider trading charges against wall street bankers, traders and analysts. ireland will get a financial bailout of more than $100 billion. and the new harry potter movie bewitched the box office faking in $1-- $1125

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>> kroft: for generations, scientists have wrestled with the idea of creating new forms of life in the laboratory. now that age is upon us. the latest milestone occurred this summer when the microbiologist j. craig venter announced that a team of his scientists had created a synthetic bacteria designed on a computer with man-made d.n.a. the announcement was greeted with a mixture of praise, skepticism, and rancor, which is familiar territory for venter. he's one of the most famous scientists in the world, known for his pioneering work in deciphering the human genetic code. but he's also one of the most controversial-- an iconoclast with a brilliant mind and an outsized ego, who has flaunted the conventional wisdom and tweaked the staid scientific establishment at every turn.

you don't have to spend much time with craig venter to understand that he likes to go fast. he's an adrenaline junky, whose willingness to take big risks has led to bold scientific breakthroughs, and he's not exactly shy about touting those accomplishments. where would you rank yourself in terms of scientific accomplishments? >> craig venter: well, in the field of genomics, it... i think the record is pretty clear cut. so, the first genome in history, the first draft of the human genome, the first complete version of the human genome. and having the first synthetic cells. >> kroft: so, the answer to the question is, "pretty high"? >> venter: i mean, it's really hard to assess that yourself. but i think the teams that we have and what we've accomplished are certainly amongst the biggest discoveries in modern science. >> kroft: if you have some stereotype of a scientist in your mind, craig venter probably doesn't fit it. he's scuba-dived with sharks to gather microbes in the pacific, and spent much of the past

summer sailing through the greek isles on his 95-foot research vessel plucking new genetic material from the sea. he rarely goes anywhere without his wife heather and their dog, darwin. and their home high above the pacific in la jolla, california, suggests the quest for scientific truth requires no vow of poverty. this is a nice place. >> venter: i have been lucky. sort of the accidental millionaire, in terms of people keep giving me money to... to start companies to exploit the... the science. >> kroft: he runs both a privately held bio-tech company called synthetic genomics, and a non-profit research lab, the j. craig venter institute. together, they employ more than 500 people on two coasts, including one nobel laureate, hamilton smith, and some of the top scientists in the world. >> venter: so, i'm much more like an orchestra conductor, you know, than the violinist. >> kroft: what do you think your greatest talent is? >> venter: i have an unusual type of thinking. i have no visual memory whatsoever-- everything is

conceptual to me. so, i... i think that's part of it. i see things differently. >> kroft: venter likes to think big, and his latest advancement is no exception. so, this is what all the fuss is about? >> venter: this is the first synthetic species. >> kroft: and how long did it take you to make this? >> venter: well, if you count the total time from the conception, about 15 years. >> kroft: and how many millions? >> venter: about $40 million over that entire time period. >> kroft: in practical terms, it is about as useful as the mold that grows in a bachelor's refrigerator, but, scientifically, it's a milestone. the bacteria, which is similar to one found in the intestines of goats, was designed on a computer, manufactured in the laboratory, and gets its genetic instructions from a synthetic chromosome made by man, not nature. and it's alive? >> venter: it's alive and self- replicating. that means it can indefinitely grow and make copies of itself. >> kroft: did you design this to do anything, in particular? >> venter: no. we designed this just to see if

we could do this whole experiment using synthetic d.n.a., and now that we know we can do it, it's worth the effort to now make the things that could be valuable. >> kroft: just how valuable remains to be seen, but venter believes this is the first baby step in a biological revolution, one in which it will be possible to custom-design and reprogram bacteria and other organisms to churn out new medicines, foods, and clean sources of energy. what you're doing is programming cells like somebody would program software. >> venter: d.n.a. is the software of life. there's no question about it. and the key to evolution of life on this planet, and now the key to the future of life on this planet, is understanding how to write that software. >> kroft: so, you see bio- engineered fuel, for example? >> venter: i see, in the future, bio-engineered almost everything you can imagine that we use. >> kroft: how far off is some of this? >> venter: the first things will start to come out in the next few years.

i think, possibly, next year's flu vaccine could come from these synthetic d.n.a. processes. instead of months to make a new vaccine each year, we could do it in 24 hours or less. >> kroft: he has already signed a contract with a major pharmaceutical firm to try and do it. b.p. is funding research to experiment with underground microbes that feed off coal and produce natural gas. and exxon-mobil has committed $300 million to venter's company to genetically enhance an algae that lives off carbon dioxide and produces an oil that can be refined into gasoline. so you're trying to cut down on co2 in the atmosphere, which people believe causes global warming, and also create a fuel? >> venter: exactly. the question is on the scale that it needs to be done at, you know? facilities the size of san francisco. >> kroft: really? >> venter: yes. >> kroft: the city? >> venter: yeah. >> kroft: venter and his team are not the only players in this growing field known as synthetic biology. for years, dupont has been using genetically modified bacteria to

make a compound used in clothing and carpets. amyris discovered a way to genetically modify yeast to produce an anti-malarial drug. another company, ls9, has altered the genes of e. coli bacteria to produce fuel. but all of them are modifying a few genes, not designing all of them. venter's rivals say his method is commercially impractical. but he's made a career out of bucking the scientific establishment, and earned lots of enemies with his brash behavior and his knack for grabbing research money and the spotlight. so, what are your faults? >> venter: probably impatience is the... you know, the biggest one. i don't suffer fools too well. that, you know, i'm not going to ever win a political contest. >> kroft: a lot of people have said you're a self-promoter, an egomaniac? >> venter: yeah. >> kroft: true? partially true? not true at all? >> venter: you know, if we hold a press conference, it's considered self-promotion.

but somebody at a university-- the university holds the press conference and that's not self- promotion. >> kroft: overly ambitious? >> venter: i'm sure i'm very guilty of that. >> kroft: that wasn't always the case. he grew up in the suburbs of san francisco as the prototypical surfer dude and a classic underachiever. >> venter: i was a horrible student. i really hated school. >> kroft: were you good in math and science? >> venter: i was not really good in anything, you know? i almost flunked out of high school. >> kroft: you got a college scholarship for swimming, right? >> venter: yes. but i didn't take it, so at age 17, i moved to southern california to take up surfing. >> kroft: that was it? >> venter: that was it. >> kroft: in 1965, reality set in. he got drafted off his surfboard, joined the navy as a medic, and was sent to vietnam to work at a field hospital in da nang. the experience changed his life, and motivated him to go back to

school and pursue a career in medical research. he became a rising star at the national institutes of health, and just as quickly grew frustrated with the politics and bureaucracy of government science. when the n.i.h. declined to fund some of his unorthodox new ideas, he left and found private investors who would. >> venter: i think we have a real problem with how science is funded and done in this country. almost every breakthrough i've been associated with is from having independent money. and once they worked, we can get tons of government money to follow up on it. but we could never get the money to do the initial experiment. >> kroft: in 1998, a company that made cutting edge technology to analyze d.n.a. hired him to take on the federal government in a race to identify all the genetic material in the human body. the federally funded human genome project had already been working on it for years. why did you decide to challenge the government? >> venter: the way it was being done just didn't make any sense. we ended up doing it in nine months instead of 15 years.

that's a big difference. >> kroft: when the competition produced bad blood and bad publicity in the scientific community, the clinton administration arranged for the two sides to announce a truce and a tie, even though many believe that venter's company, celera genomics, was ahead. but for venter, the celebration was short-lived. the tension between making science and making money, and personality conflicts with his corporate bosses, got venter sacked a year and a half later. you accomplished all this stuff, and you got fired by the company that brought you in to do this. >> venter: yup. >> kroft: they locked the doors. >> venter: they locked the doors and sent me away. >> kroft: the experience left him deeply depressed, but he was financially well off and still in business, having endowed his research institute with $100 million in stock at the height of the biotech boom. within a few years, he was once again making waves in the world of science. only this time, at age 64, he's

not just trying to decipher genetic codes; now, he's trying to create them. this is a quote from one of your critics. "he's trying to short-circuit millions of years of evolution and create his own version of second genesis. it's the height of hubris. it's irresponsible. and he can't tell you it's going to be safe." >> venter: except for the second part, i was taking that as a compliment. ( laughs ) i can tell you what we're doing is safe; that there's no way that i can guarantee that other people that use these tools will do intelligent, safe experiments with it. but i think the chance of evil happening with this and somebody even trying to do deliberate evil would be pretty hard. >> kroft: why? >> venter: because the complexity of biology. you know, we're not working with human pathogens. we're working with algae cells. and part of our design is cells that won't survive outside of a facility or a laboratory. and we think other scientists will adopt these same

approaches. >> kroft: there are some things that concern you about this? >> venter: well, it... it is powerful technology. it's something that needs to be monitored, absolutely. >> kroft: president obama was concerned enough to ask his commission on bioethics to hold hearings on venter's new technology shortly after the results were published in the journal "science." apart from the legal and regulatory questions raised, there are some moral and ethical ones, as well. there are a lot of people in this country who don't think that you ought to screw around with nature. >> venter: we don't have too many choices now. we are a society that is 100% dependent on science. we're going to go up in our population in the next 40 years, we can't deal with the population we have without destroying our environment. >> kroft: but aren't you playing god? >> venter: we're not playing anything. we're understanding the rules of life. >> kroft: but that's... that's more than studying life; that's changing life. >> venter: well, domesticating animals was changing life.

domesticating corn-- when you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing d.n.a. of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. >> kroft: this is a little different, though. this is another step, isn't it? >> venter: yeah, now, we're doing it in a deliberate design fashion with tiny bacteria. i think it's much healthier to do it based on some knowledge and a better understanding of life than to do it blindly and randomly. >> kroft: you know, i've asked two or three times, "do you think you're playing god?" i mean, do you believe in god? >> venter: no. i believe the universe is far more wonderful than just assuming it was made by some higher power. i think the fact that these cells are software-driven machines and that software is d.n.a. and that's the... truly, the secret of life is writing software is pretty miraculous. just seeing that process in the simplest forms that we're just witnessing is pretty stunning.

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>> logan: mark wahlberg has made a career of reinventing himself like no one else in show business. today he is not only one of the most sought-after actors in hollywood, he's also one of the top producers-- this from somebody who was sitting in a boston prison when most kids his age were graduating from high school. the former street tough has been nominated for an academy award, and is an executive producer of

four television shows. but now, he's on the verge of unveiling a highly anticipated movie that became an obsession. he produced and stars in "the fighter," an intense and true family drama about two boxing brothers from wahlberg's native massachusetts. "the fighter" will premiere next month. but tonight, you will get a peek at what mark wahlberg says is the most satisfying and brutal project he's ever been involved in. in the movie, wahlberg plays "irish" micky ward, the blue collar boxer and perennial underdog from lowell, massachusetts, who struggles to emerge from the shadow of his older brother, dicky, a promising boxer turned crack head played by christian bale. >> christian bale: why am i the problem? i'm his brother, i'm his family. >> mark wahlberg: i'm the one who's fighting, okay-- not you, not you and not you. >> logan: the rocky relationship between the two brothers is at the heart of "the fighter."

for the movie's boxing scenes, wahlberg stepped into the ring himself. stunt men were out of the question. was it hard to just stand and take it and take it and take it? >> mark wahlberg: it doesn't tickle, that's for sure. >> logan: did you ever get hurt? >> wahlberg: i almost got my nose broken a couple of times. because when we shot the fights, the goal for me was always to make it as real as possible. >> logan: to that end, wahlberg got ready for the film as if he was training for a title fight. >> wahlberg: i didn't want to look like an actor who could box; i wanted to look like a boxer who could win the world title. we trained right here... >> logan: ...at his home in beverly hills. >> wahlberg: this is where we choreographed all the fights. >> logan: ...wahlberg built a boxing mecca, complete with a top-of-the-line ring. you took this seriously. >> wahlberg: we were in here eight to ten hours a day. >> logan: it was here that he brought the real brothers, micky and dicky, to help with his training. >> logan: mark trained for the role for four years, not knowing

whether one frame of the film would ever be shot. "the fighter" almost didn't get made. directors and co-stars came and went. did you ever think, "you know, gosh, i'm never going to get this made. this is just impossible." >> wahlberg: there were certainly times where i would wake up at 4:30 in the morning, you know, my trainer would ring the bell. and, "oh god." i'm like, "i better get this movie made." you know, "kill somebody if i don't get this movie made." >> logan: did you get obsessed with it? >> wahlberg: i was, yeah, i was. >> logan: what made you say, "this is the one." what was it about it? >> wahlberg: i was such a huge micky ward fan. >> logan: always? even growing up? >> wahlberg: yeah. oh, yeah. i mean, god, you know, the name "micky ward" was, to me, like the name "larry bird," just a local sports hero. >> logan: in micky ward, mark also saw glimpses of his own story. like ward, wahlberg was one of nine kids and grew up in working class massachusetts. were these streets really rough when you were growing up? we went back, with wahlberg, to his hometown of dorchester, a scrappy section of boston.

>> wahlberg: the old guy from the store? >> logan: yeah? >> wahlberg: he thinks i owe him money. >> logan: do you owe him money? >> wahlberg: i think it's my brother who owes him money. it's my brother, georgie. it's my brother. >> logan: wahlberg dropped out of school when he was 13. he ran with the wrong crowd, and from the law. what happened to a lot of the other kids that were on the streets with you? >> wahlberg: well, unfortunately, you know, a lot of friends are either dead or in jail, you know. >> logan: mark used to sneak out of his bedroom window and hit the streets for late nights of boozing, brawling, dealing, and stealing. were you a good thief? >> wahlberg: i was pretty good. i was pretty good. i was pretty daring. >> jim flavin: you were a pain in the neck, but you were always respectful. >> logan: a rare positive influence for mark was father jim flavin. the street punk and the parish priest struck up an unlikely friendship. father flavin saw a glimmer of wahlberg's future one day during one of mark's many appearances in court before a judge.

>> flavin: he was just pouring it onto the judge-- you know, "i'll never do it again." you know, "i'm sorry," and he was wonderful. you know, he started tearing up, and the judge just melted and said, "all right," you know, "this'll be it." and he turned around and started out, and he looked at me and winked. and i said, "you little bugger." that was an academy award performance in the courtroom. >> logan: father flavin says that he could barely see you over the steering wheel when you were driving around, waving at him from stolen cars. >> wahlberg: that is true. i just liked to drive. >> logan: a lot of people like to drive cars, but they don't necessarily steal them to drive them. >> wahlberg: well, that was not a good idea. >> logan: but on an april night in 1988, mark's crimes turned more serious. he attacked a man with a stick on this dorchester sidewalk, simply because he wanted the man's two cases of beer. did you realize that this man who you'd hit with a stick in the eye, that he'd lost his eye and that he'd... when did you find out? >> wahlberg: not until later,

until we started going through the court proceedings. >> logan: and what did you think? >> wahlberg: oh, god, i was just, you know, horrified. >> logan: did you ever apologize to the man that you hurt? >> wahlberg: yes. i got up in front of the court, was able to address the court and him. and then, you know, they just put the shackles on me and took me away. >> logan: wahlberg pled guilty and was sent to a 19th-century prison. he was 17. >> flavin: it was the worst prison we had in boston. >> logan: and he was afraid? >> flavin: he'd never admit it. >> logan: but you thought he was? >> flavin: yeah. >> wahlberg: at first, i'm thinking, "well, i'm one of the guys now. i made it." and then i just realized, well, this is what it means to be one of the guys? and i just wanted more out of my life. >> logan: after serving 45 days in prison, his life turned when he followed his older brother donnie into a music studio. mark became a new man-- marky mark... a white rapper in the hip-hop world.

♪ >> logan: his 1991 song, "good vibrations," went gold. he became known for his antics onstage, where, to the delight of screaming girls, he dropped his pants. ( cheers and applause ) >> wahlberg: it's not like i should take credit for this, like, ingenious idea. i just pulled down my pants. and my mother did not like it all. >> logan: what did you say when your mother complained? >> wahlberg: "i wouldn't do it anymore." >> logan: and then you went out, and did it again. >> wahlberg: yeah. >> logan: the dropping of his drawers inspired an ad campaign that featured wahlberg in his calvin klein underwear. when you look back at that part of your career, how do you feel about it? >> wahlberg: it was certainly, ah, got my foot in the door and allowed me to get where i am today. but i'm glad that i don't do that anymore. action! >> logan: soon after, wahlberg received a pivotal phone call from director penny marshall. she was casting a new movie, "renaissance man."

>> wahlberg: and when i sat down with her, i was like, "no, i don't want to act." she goes, "what do you mean? you're acting all the... you're acting right now." you know, "you're just acting like you're a cool... you act like a tough guy." you know, "take the pages. go outside, look them over, and then come back in and audition for one of the parts." >> logan: he did. he got the job. >> wahlberg: present, sir. tommy lee heywood, walakoochee, georgia." >> logan: was it hard for you to be taken seriously as an actor in the beginning? did people kind of scoff at you because you were the sort of rap boy? >> wahlberg: it was definitely something that was frowned upon. and i don't think all the other things that i was associated with helped. but, you know, i felt like i really found my niche. this is what i'm supposed to be doing. >> logan: acting forced him to become disciplined for the first time in his life. >> wahlberg: in the music business, they kind of, you know, encourage you to be irresponsible. >> logan: you had been pretty good at being irresponsible up to that point. >> wahlberg: exactly. so i needed the change of pace. we can always do better. >> logan: he earned the respect of critics after he pulled off a flawless performance as an innocent teenager turned porn star in "boogie nights."

>> wahlberg: please don't be mean to me. >> logan: there's something so vulnerable about you in that film that really took people by surprise, because that wasn't the image that anyone had of you. >> wahlberg: that was a big turning point for me, you know, because i was really worried about what are the guys in the neighborhood going to think. but then i was, like, "you know, what? if i want to be an actor, i got to be an actor. i can't worry about what everybody else's going to think." hey, i forgot the password, but if you'd like to come down to the garage with me, i'd be happy to give it to you. >> logan: a few years later came the film "the departed," and an oscar nomination for wahlberg. but what has perhaps given wahlberg the most cachet in hollywood is his series about hollywood. as an executive producer, he developed "entourage," the hit hbo show about a star actor who hires his boyhood friends to serve as his entourage. whose idea was it? >> wahlberg: it depends on who you ask. >> logan: i'm asking you. >> wahlberg: well, obviously, it's.... i would say it's my idea because it's based on my... my life and my guys. >> logan: it's based on your